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The Ribbon Moray
Eel, Rhinomuraena quaesita
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By Bob Fenner |
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Rhinomuraena species, the
Ribbon Moray Eels. Ninety nine percent plus do not live a month in
captivity. Most starve, refusing all food. Next most common category of
loss is escape through the smallest of top openings, or plumbing. Last is
"simple stress".
The written record shows some people's success with
netting food and eel together and shaking, training on select live
skewered items; but most black to blue to all yellow female ribbon morays
perish within a short while. You've been cautioned. Rhinomuraena
quaesita: Fiji image at right or
a changeling female and male.
Below, a juvenile (black) and male in N. Sulawesi and a female in Mabul,
Malaysia. Females are mostly to all yellow
in color.
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